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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| trample | tramp |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| sheer | unqualified |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |