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 |
|---|---|
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| indite | make up |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |