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 |
|---|---|
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| cynical | having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |