GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defiance | the act or an instance of defying : challenge |
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |
| refurbish | to brighten or freshen up : renovate |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |