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 |
|---|---|
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| engender | beget |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| pundit | pandit |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| raspy | harsh |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |