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 |
|---|---|
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| recast | to cast again |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |