GRE Word List

IMPUISSANCE

weakness

The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.

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WordMeaning
brevityshortness of duration
caldrona large kettle or boiler
microcosma little world
impromptumade, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised
careera profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
wansuggestive of poor health : sickly
panoramicof, relating to, or resembling a panorama: such as
flagrantconspicuously offensive
unceremoniousnot ceremonious : informal
gargoylea spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building