GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| harass | exhaust |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |