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 |
|---|---|
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| perdition | eternal damnation |