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 |
|---|---|
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |