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
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| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| guy | man |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
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