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 |
|---|---|
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |