GRE Word List
POTABLE
suitable for drinking
The meaning of the word potable is suitable for drinking.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| bulk | magnitude |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |