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 |
|---|---|
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| pan | a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking) |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |