GRE Word List
IMPERIL
to bring into peril : endanger
The meaning of the word imperil is to bring into peril : endanger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| dingy | dirty |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| natal | native |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |