GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertex | the top of the head |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |