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 |
|---|---|
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |