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 |
|---|---|
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |