Word of the Week: insuperable (in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul)

Definition

(adjective) Incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved

 

In Context

“‘Life and Fate,’ his resulting magnum opus, is not likely to be unseated as the greatest Second World War novel ever written. Grossman’s challenge over the ten years of its composition seems nearly insuperable: to evoke the scope and magnitude of the conflict without turning his characters into cogs in a vast military machine.”

Sam Sacks, The New Yorker, 25 June 2013