GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| antiquity | ancient times |