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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
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| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |