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 |
|---|---|
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| blatant | noisy especially in a vulgar or offensive manner : clamorous |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |