GRE Word List
ENVIRON
encircle
The meaning of the word environ is encircle.
Random words
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| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |