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 |
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wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
cursive | running |
pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
gush | to issue copiously or violently |
pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |