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 |
|---|---|
| delusive | likely to delude |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| nourish | nurture |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |