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 |
|---|---|
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |