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 |
|---|---|
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |