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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| whimsy | whim |
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |