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 |
|---|---|
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| 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 |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |