GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |