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 |
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| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |