GRE Word List
IMPEDE
to interfere with or slow the progress of
The meaning of the word impede is to interfere with or slow the progress of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| opulence | wealth |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |