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 |
|---|---|
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |