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
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muse | to become absorbed in thought |
conformist | one who conforms : a person who behaves in accordance with prevailing standards or customs and typically dislikes or avoids unconventional behavior |
rally | to muster for a common purpose |
reprise | a musical repetition: |
visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |