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 |
|---|---|
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| commune | talk over |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |