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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gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
callusa thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
decorumliterary and dramatic propriety : fitness
parochialof or relating to a church parish
cremateto subject to cremation
fleecethe coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep)
harbingersomething that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
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arch-a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening)
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