GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
hindrance; stumbling-block; speech defect preventing clear articulation; Ex. speech impediment
The meaning of the word impediment is hindrance; stumbling-block; speech defect preventing clear articulation; Ex. speech impediment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| novelty | something new; newness; ADJ. novel: new; original |
| quadruped | four-footed animal; ADJ. CF. biped |
| dirge | funeral song; slow mournful piece of music (sung over a dead person) |
| malaise | uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health (without any particular pain or appearance of disease) |
| mason | one who builds or works with stone or brick; N. masonry: work of a mason; stonework or brickwork |
| turncoat | traitor |
| opus | work (esp. musical composition); Ex. magnum opus: masterpiece; CF. opera |
| scapegoat | someone who bears the blame for others; whipping boy; CF. escape+goat |
| grandiloquent | (of a person or speech) using high sounding or important-sounding language; pompous; bombastic |
| bowdlerize | expurgate; CF. Thomas Bowdler |