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 |
|---|---|
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| opulence | wealth |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |