GRE Word List
IMMINENT
ready to take place : happening soon
The meaning of the word imminent is ready to take place : happening soon.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |