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.
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derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |