GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| mendicant | beggar |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |