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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decompositionto separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds
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authoritarianof, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority
runicany of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries
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clientelea body of clients
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