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 |
|---|---|
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |