GRE Word List
SUCCUMB
to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire
The meaning of the word succumb is to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |