GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| append | attach |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| migrant | one that migrates: such as |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |