GRE Word List
IMPERVIOUS
not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable
The meaning of the word impervious is not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| submerge | to put under water |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| clime | climate |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |