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 |
|---|---|
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| fiend | devil |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| wry | twist |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |