GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| seemly | good-looking |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |