GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| contest | strive |
| rightful | just |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |