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 |
|---|---|
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |