GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
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|---|---|
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |