GRE Word List
ENSCONCE
shelter
The meaning of the word ensconce is shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| etymology | the 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 |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |