GRE Word List
IMPETUOUS
marked by impulsive vehemence or passion
The meaning of the word impetuous is marked by impulsive vehemence or passion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |