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 |
|---|---|
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |