GRE Word List
IMPERIOUS
marked by arrogant assurance : domineering
The meaning of the word imperious is marked by arrogant assurance : domineering.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| intermediary | mediator |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |