GRE Word List
IMPETUS
a driving force : impulse
The meaning of the word impetus is a driving force : impulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |