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 |
|---|---|
| address | to mark directions for delivery on |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |