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 |
|---|---|
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |