GRE Word List
POTENT
having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful
The meaning of the word potent is having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| actuary | clerk |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |