GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| calculated | apt |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |