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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| apprehend | arrest |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |