GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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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 |