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 |
|---|---|
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| fabricate | invent |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| ravenous | rapacious |