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 |
|---|---|
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |