GRE Word List
ENSUE
to strive to attain : pursue
The meaning of the word ensue is to strive to attain : pursue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |