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 |
|---|---|
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| impuissance | weakness |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |