GRE Word List
AVIARY
a place for keeping birds confined
The meaning of the word aviary is a place for keeping birds confined.
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| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |