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
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| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| sonic | utilizing, produced by, or relating to sound waves |