GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mystic | mystical |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| fluke | flatfish |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |