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 |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |