GRE Word List
APIARY
a place where bees are kept
The meaning of the word apiary is a place where bees are kept.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| rift | fissure |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |