GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |