GRE Word List
CONSERVATORY
a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants
The meaning of the word conservatory is a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants.
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| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| privy | private |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |