GRE Word List

IMPUISSANCE

weakness

The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.

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WordMeaning
extolto praise highly : glorify
consonanceharmony or agreement among components
enigmasomething hard to understand or explain
shrewdmarked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen
ferociousexhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
constituenta member of a constituency
suavitysmoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated
unctuoushaving, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality
scalean instrument or machine for weighing
goadto incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad