GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |