GRE Word List
APIARIST
beekeeper
The meaning of the word apiarist is beekeeper.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invalid | not valid: |
| categorical | absolute |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |