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 |
|---|---|
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |