GRE Word List
IRRECONCILABLE
impossible to reconcile
The meaning of the word irreconcilable is impossible to reconcile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |