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 |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| invalid | not valid: |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |