GRE Word List
IMPEDIMENT
something that impedes
The meaning of the word impediment is something that impedes.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conflagration | fire |
| faculty | ability |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |