GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |