GRE Word List

ENSCONCE

shelter

The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.

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apothecaryone who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
ruminateto go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly
aberrationthe fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state
sartorialof or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
consolean architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament
underscoreto draw a line under : underline
delusivelikely to delude
exhilaratingcausing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
blightedaffected with blight (see blight