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 |
|---|---|
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| blackball | to vote against |