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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
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| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| dynamo | generator |