GRE Word List
ENVIRON
encircle
The meaning of the word environ is encircle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |