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 |
|---|---|
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| drab | slattern |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |