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 |
|---|---|
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| acetic | vinegary |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |