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 |
|---|---|
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| imbibe | drink |