GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| throes | pang |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |