GRE Word List
IMPASSIVE
giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless
The meaning of the word impassive is giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| dilute | attenuate |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |