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 |
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rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |