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 |
|---|---|
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| onus | burden |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
