GRE Word List

ENSCONCE

shelter

The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.

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unrequitednot requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind
abutto border on : to touch along an edge
metropolisthe chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
abhorto regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe
coteriean intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
discretionindividual choice or judgment
resuscitateto revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness
casteone of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes
illimitableincapable of being limited or bounded : measureless