GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |