GRE Word List
POTABLE
suitable for drinking
The meaning of the word potable is suitable for drinking.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| whimsy | whim |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |