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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| wanton | merciless |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |