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 |
|---|---|
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| imprecation | curse |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |