GRE Word List
HIVE
a container for housing honeybees
The meaning of the word hive is a container for housing honeybees.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| apprehend | arrest |