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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| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
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| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |