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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| untenable | not able to be defended |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
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| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |