GRE Word List
IMPUGN
to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity
The meaning of the word impugn is to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |