GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| restitution | an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |