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.
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| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
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| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| resign | relegate |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |