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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| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| dappled | marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |