GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dint | force |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| scotch | scottish |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |