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 |
|---|---|
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| fester | to generate pus |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |