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.

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charismaa personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader)
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
ambiguousdoubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness
traduceto expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation
ingenuea naive girl or young woman
tantalizeto tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach
interdicta Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district