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 |
|---|---|
| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |