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 |
|---|---|
| opus | work |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| concentric | having a common center |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |