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 |
|---|---|
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |