GRE Word List
IMPAIR
to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse
The meaning of the word impair is to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| charlatan | quack |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |