GRE Word List
AERIE
the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop
The meaning of the word aerie is the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |