GRE Word List
IMPASSABLE
incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted
The meaning of the word impassable is incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |