GRE Word List
PUISSANT
having puissance : powerful
The meaning of the word puissant is having puissance : powerful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |