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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|---|---|
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
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| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| consort | associate |
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