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 |
|---|---|
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| antecede | precede |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |