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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| Word | Meaning |
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| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| ram | a male sheep |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| fiend | devil |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |