GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| categorical | absolute |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |