GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| fester | to generate pus |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |