GRE Word List
HIVE
a container for housing honeybees
The meaning of the word hive is a container for housing honeybees.
Random words
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nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
introvert | a person whose personality is characterized by introversion : a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspective and enjoys spending time alone |
feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
braggadocio | empty boasting |
gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
assent | to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after thoughtful consideration : concur |
somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |