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 |
|---|---|
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| aptitude | inclination |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |