GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |