Cases of word usage

1) a public meeting at which goods are sold to the person offering the most money (auction)

2) a private house offering rooms to paying guests (guest house)

3) a short statement offering practical advice based on experience about how to live etc, as in 'Look before you leap' (maxim)

4) a kind of very small creature that can carry disease; small especially poor child; a very small or modest contribution or offering (mite)

5) a statement offering to do or give something; an amount (of money etc) (offer)

6) (an instance of) (an) offering of something precious to a god (sacrifice)