GRE Word List
ACCLIMATE
to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation
The meaning of the word acclimate is to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| peerless | matchless |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| predetermine | foreordain |