GRE Word List

ENCUMBER

weigh down

The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.

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exactingtryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands
snickerto laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter
refractoryresisting control or authority : stubborn
formalitycompliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony
synopticaffording a general view of a whole
ferociousexhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
edificebuilding
beholdenbeing under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted
lopean easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter