This week’s theme
Don’t judge a word by its sound

This week’s words
pulchritude
degustation
bucolic
puissant
crepuscular

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PRONUNCIATION:

(PWIS-uhnt, PYOO-uh-suhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Potent.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via French from Latin posse (to be able). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poti- (powerful, lord), which also gave us power, potent, possess, posse, possible, and Turkish pasha (via Persian). Earliest documented use: 1435.

USAGE:

“He knew that the demon was puissant enough to guarantee them victory this day.”
William Carson; Few Far Fallen; Morning Rain Publishing; 2014.

See more usage examples of puissant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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