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 |
|---|---|
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |