GRE Word List
PREVAIL
to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph
The meaning of the word prevail is to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| encumber | weigh down |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |