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 |
|---|---|
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| skimp | skimpy |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |