GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |