GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |
| healthy | enjoying good health |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |