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 |
|---|---|
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |