GRE Word List

ENSCONCE

shelter

The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.

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vouchto supply supporting evidence or testimony
analgesican agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia
impotentnot potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless
agnostica person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
quagmiresoft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot
epigrama concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought
irksometending to irk : tedious
aegisa shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena
direexciting horror
mutterto utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed