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 |
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cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
liability | the quality or state of being liable |
capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
franchise | the right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |