GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |