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 |
|---|---|
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| alimentary | of or relating to nourishment or nutrition |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |