GRE Word List
HIVE
a container for housing honeybees
The meaning of the word hive is a container for housing honeybees.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| primal | original |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| veracious | truthful |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |