GRE Word List
HIBERNATE
to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state
The meaning of the word hibernate is to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| exploit | deed |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| ploy | escapade |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |