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 |
|---|---|
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| imbibe | drink |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or the intellect |