GRE Word List
IMPASSE
a predicament affording no obvious escape
The meaning of the word impasse is a predicament affording no obvious escape.
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|---|---|
| brave | having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : having or showing courage |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |
| mortician | undertaker |
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