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 |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |