GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| opulence | wealth |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |