GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| 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 |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |