GRE Word List
IMPASSE
a predicament affording no obvious escape
The meaning of the word impasse is a predicament affording no obvious escape.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |