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 |
|---|---|
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| finicky | extremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards |