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 |
|---|---|
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |