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 |
|---|---|
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| judicious | having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |