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 |
|---|---|
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| 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 |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |