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 |
|---|---|
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| docile | easily taught |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |