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 |
|---|---|
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |