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 |
|---|---|
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |