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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| violate | break |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |