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 |
|---|---|
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| hurl | rush |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| decipher | decode |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |