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 |
|---|---|
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| hallowed | holy |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |