GRE Word List
ENVIRON
encircle
The meaning of the word environ is encircle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| welter | writhe |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |