GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
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| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
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| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
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