GRE Word List
IMPUISSANCE
weakness
The meaning of the word impuissance is weakness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| inequity | injustice |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| sibling | sib |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |