Today's Word "insuperable"
Incapable of being passed over
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insuperable \in-SOO-pur-uh-bul\ (adjective) - Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insurmountable; as, "insuperable difficulties."
"While the obstacles to their getting a house may have seemed insuperable in toto, taken individually they were quite easily surmounted -- it was the sheer number of them which was the most daunting part."
nsuperable comes from Latin insuperabilis, from in-, "not" + superare, "to go above or over, to surmount," from super, "above, over."