GRE Word List
MENAGERIE
a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition
The meaning of the word menagerie is a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| asunder | into parts |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |