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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frenziedfeeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance
treatisea systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached
callowlacking adult sophistication : immature
motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
plaintiveexpressive of suffering or woe : melancholy
tarnishto dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil
elaborationplanned or carried out with great care
hindsightperception of the nature of an event after it has happened
inhibitedto prohibit from doing something
malodoroushaving a bad odor