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 |
|---|---|
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| exegesis | exposition |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |