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 |
|---|---|
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| submerge | to put under water |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |