GRE Word List
AVIARY
a place for keeping birds confined
The meaning of the word aviary is a place for keeping birds confined.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| headlong | headfirst |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |