GRE Word List
AVIARY
a place for keeping birds confined
The meaning of the word aviary is a place for keeping birds confined.
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knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
sheer | unqualified |
sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |