GRE Word List
IMPETUS
a driving force : impulse
The meaning of the word impetus is a driving force : impulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| engender | beget |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| irate | roused to ire |