GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| concentric | having a common center |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |