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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| thesis | a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |