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 |
|---|---|
| potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| nomenclature | name |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |