GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
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