GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| trample | tramp |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| submerge | to put under water |