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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| commune | talk over |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |