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 |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| condole | grieve |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| trance | stupor |
| belabor | to attack verbally |