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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embargoan order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports
seedycontaining or full of seeds
temperheat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion
sentimentalmarked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism
corrodeto eat away by degrees as if by gnawing
expurgateto cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous
macabrehaving death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
polemican aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
germinateto cause to sprout or develop
annexto attach as a quality, consequence, or condition