GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| homespun | spun or made at home |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |