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 |
|---|---|
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| boor | peasant |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| epaulet | something that ornaments or protects the shoulder: such as |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |