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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| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| 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 |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| mischance | bad luck |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |