GRE Word List
POTABLE
suitable for drinking
The meaning of the word potable is suitable for drinking.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |