GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| faculty | ability |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |