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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| lunar | crescent |