GRE Word List
PUZZLE
to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally
The meaning of the word puzzle is to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |