GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |