impérieux

Meaning

imperious, pressing, compelling

Example

The pressing need to reduce debt served as the argument for every budget cut.

More words at level C1

• incisif incisive, sharp, trenchant
• incomber to fall to, to be incumbent on
• infléchir to shift, to adjust, to bend
• insidieux insidious, stealthy, creeping
• intransigeance intransigence, inflexibility
• intrinsèque intrinsic, inherent, built-in
• inéluctable inescapable, inevitable, unavoidable
• jalonner to mark, to punctuate, to dot

How to learn a word, not just look it up

• How spaced repetition works

  Memory lets a word go along a curve. Spaced repetition puts the next review just before the word slips, so every repeat buys more time than the one before it.

• Learning Lithuanian as an English speaker

  Seven cases, no shared vocabulary and a stress mark nobody writes down. What is genuinely hard about Lithuanian for an English speaker, what is easier than advertised, and the order that works.