GRE Word List
IMPERVIOUS
not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable
The meaning of the word impervious is not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |