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 |
|---|---|
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| hap | happening |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| fell | skin |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |