Vocab-ability–191 (potent = power) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. My coffee was very potent, it was quiet bitter.
  2. The the priest sired a baby with one of his parishioners in the confession room because her husband was impotent.
  3. Steen Monsters has great potential for a game.
  4. The king was very potentate and killed the priest when he found out about his transgressions.

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Good work!

Clearly, priests do much good in their communities!!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The poison was so potent she died within 5 minutes of swallowing it.
  2. The eunuch is impotent.
  3. That man has a lot of potential in the sales business.
  4. The pope is a potentate ruler of the catholic church.

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Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The medicine was very potent.
  2. Impotent men can't have children.
  3. One should try to achieve full potential.
  4. A ruler must be potentate.


Good work!

Re your #2, I believe impotent men can in fact have children. They just have to try "HARDER."

MY VOCAB PRACTICE
1-An elephant has an enough potent.
2-Now and then my resource power is an impotent.
3-Metrogyl tab has enough potential to recover loose motion.
4-Adolf Hitler was potentate ruler.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The white witch was famous for concocting a very potent mixture of herbal tonics for relieving dizzy spells.
  2. Stress is among the many factors known in causing impotence in modern day society.
  3. Her primary school teacher played a major role in discovering her musical talents as well as potential in performance arts.
  4. Wu Zetian was a shrewd but the one and only known potentate female ruler throughout 5000 years of Chinese civilization.


Good work!

Thank you! :D

MY VOCAB PRACTICE
1.Potent drug often accompanies some irreversible side effects.
2.I'll feel so impotent when I can't help someone who is important to me.
3.This kind of behavior of the kid shows the potential for dancing.
4.Some presidents in their aren't so potentate because they need to share his power with other branches of government.

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Good work!

thanks for holding this kind of interesting event :)

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. I'm a very potent young man.

  2. I heard my neighbour's wife complaining that her husband is impotent.

  3. The new set of musicians signed up to the record label have great potentials

  4. Gadhaffi was a potentate before he was killed


Good work!

I hope your neighbour's complaining did not keep you awake at night!!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Potent
    "That guy proved he's potent at playing soccer."

  2. Impotent
    "Let them and their impotent army cross our borders. We will show them the hell of going against our land."

  3. Potential
    "They say I'm okay like this, but that's not enough. I want to reach my full potential"

  4. Potentate
    "You can't beat them at their game. Potentate or not, they're who make the rules in this world."


Once again I miss many of those amazing posts.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Cola flavor soft drinks can act as highly potent rust removing agents.
  2. High degree of corruption have led the court system to become impotent.
  3. Every individual have potential for doing good, as well as doing evil.
  4. The industry involved with mining for natural resources is controlled by a hand full of corporate potentates.


Good work!

I like your #1. In fact, I used to work in a chemical factory that made phosphoric acid, the rust-removing agent that is an ingredient of cola drinks.

We used to dip rusted metal tools into the large vats of phosphoric acid, in order to remove the rust from them. It worked ... amazingly well.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The coffee had a very potent scent.
  2. His fury was directly connected with his impotence.
  3. The child had a lot of potential.
  4. The potentate crushed his foes with unrelenting force.


Good work!

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