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 |
|---|---|
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| onus | burden |
| primal | original |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| fabricate | invent |