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 |
|---|---|
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| encumber | weigh down |