GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |