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 |
|---|---|
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |