GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |