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 |
|---|---|
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| wry | twist |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |