GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| diva | prima donna |