GRE Word List
ENVIRON
encircle
The meaning of the word environ is encircle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| dilute | attenuate |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |