GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
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| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |