GRE Word List

IMPUISSANCE

weakness

The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.

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pedestalthe support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration
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munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
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compileto compose out of materials from other documents
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