GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |