GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
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|---|---|
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| grudging | unwilling |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |