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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |