GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| drivel | nonsense |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| hubbub | noise |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
