GRE Word List
INSURMOUNTABLE
incapable of being surmounted : insuperable
The meaning of the word insurmountable is incapable of being surmounted : insuperable.
Random words
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| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
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| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| groom | bridegroom |
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| codify | to reduce to a code |
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