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 |
|---|---|
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |