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 |
|---|---|
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| realm | kingdom |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |