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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| Word | Meaning |
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| replicate | duplicate |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
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| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |