GRE Word List
IMPEACH
to charge with a crime or misdemeanor
The meaning of the word impeach is to charge with a crime or misdemeanor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |