GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| epic | a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| refulgent | a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |