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 |
|---|---|
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |