Impervious

While impervious may seem like a weird word, it’s actually a really great little bugger. For example, you’re looking for a raincoat at Coats R Us, you would want to tell the salesgirl that you’re looking for something impervious. You also want to have an impervious roof to your house, your shoes, and anything else which might let water in if not impervious. If a class has a reputation for a very high fail rate, one could call the class impervious. While not used as much in that way, it still technically works.

Another way to use impervious would be if talking to someone with a very well thought-out argument, you could say that the argument itself is impervious, because even though the argument itself is intangible, the ideas presented in it would create a sort of block.

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