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 |
|---|---|
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |