GRE Word List

ENSCONCE

shelter

The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.

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lushgrowing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage
carnivoroussubsisting or feeding on animal tissues
etymologythe 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
remittancea sum of money remitted
cemeterya burial ground
abstractdisassociated from any specific instance
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execrabledeserving to be execrated : detestable
pass_offpresent falsely; represent falsely to be
lapa loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment