GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| niggle | trifle |
| veracious | truthful |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |