GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |