GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |