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 |
|---|---|
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| adept | thoroughly proficient : expert |