GRE Word List
APICULTURE
the keeping of bees especially on a large scale
The meaning of the word apiculture is the keeping of bees especially on a large scale.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| brooch | an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck |
| 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 |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| paramour | lover |