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 |
|---|---|
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |