GRE Word List
IMPENETRABLE
incapable of being penetrated or pierced
The meaning of the word impenetrable is incapable of being penetrated or pierced.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |