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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fortuitous | occurring by chance |
incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |