GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |