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 |
|---|---|
| demure | reserved |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |