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 |
|---|---|
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| lewd | obscene |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |