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 |
|---|---|
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |