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 |
|---|---|
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |