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 |
|---|---|
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |