GRE Word List
POTENTATE
ruler
The meaning of the word potentate is ruler.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| seasoned | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| dys- | abnormal |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |