GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| dire | exciting horror |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |