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 |
|---|---|
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |