GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| welter | writhe |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |