GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |