GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| hortatory | hortative |
| leery | suspicious |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |