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 |
|---|---|
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| fluke | flatfish |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |