GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |