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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| random | a haphazard course |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |