GRE Word List
IMPENDING
occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming
The meaning of the word impending is occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |