GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
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| panoramic | of, relating to, or resembling a panorama: such as |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |