GRE Word List
APIARY
a place where bees are kept
The meaning of the word apiary is a place where bees are kept.
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| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| submerge | to put under water |
| witless | destitute of wit or understanding : foolish |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| refrain | curb |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| diva | prima donna |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |