GRE Word List
IMPERMEABLE
not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance
The meaning of the word impermeable is not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| harass | exhaust |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |