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 |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| juncture | a point of time |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |