GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| 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) |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |