GRE Word List
POTENTATE
ruler
The meaning of the word potentate is ruler.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inanimate | not animate: |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |