GRE Word List
IMPETUS
a driving force : impulse
The meaning of the word impetus is a driving force : impulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preeminent | having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding |
| obscure | dark |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |