GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| unfrock | defrock |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| noisome | noxious |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |