GRE Word List
PRIZE
something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance
The meaning of the word prize is something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| cipher | zero |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |