GRE Word List
ARBORETUM
a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes
The meaning of the word arboretum is a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes.
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| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |