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 |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |