GRE Word List
POTENTATE
monarch; sovereign
The meaning of the word potentate is monarch; sovereign.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| redress | remedy; compensation; Ex. seek redress for the damage to your car; V: put right; remedy or rectify (a wrong); make amends for |
| egregious | notorious; conspicuously bad or shocking |
| aggrandize | make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
| repercussion | rebound; reaction; reverberation; Ex. serious repercussion |
| defer | give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; N. deferment; CF. show respect, comply with, courteous |
| crescendo | increase in the volume or intensity as in a musical passage; climax; CF. crescent |
| caulk | make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship) |
| chapel | small church (in a prison, college, or hospital) |
| deviate | turn away from (a principle, norm); move away from an accepted standard; swerve; depart; diverge; N. deviation; Ex. deviation of the path of light by a prism |
| impassable | not able to be traveled or crossed |
