Able
Able adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.
Nearby Word: ability
Impotent
Impotent adjective - Unable to act or achieve one's purpose.
Usage example: an impotent ruler who was just a figurehead
Nearby Word: impotence
Both words in one sentence
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Mission Control is impotent, Professor X's psychic communications are limited or blocked, and the game takes pains to establish that no one — not even Kitty Pryde, Doctor Strange, or the Asgardians — was able to escape Murderworld.
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All of them are also incredibly dangerous, ranging from Kazue being able to prepare poisons that kill you in five minutes or make you impotent to Ryo being a One-Man Army who can use a revolver to put six bullets in the same hole at fifteen meters and a rifle to shoot a belt from one kilometer away.
Source: Beware the Silly Ones
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