GRE Word List
INCENTIVE
something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action
The meaning of the word incentive is something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action.
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| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
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| dolt | a stupid person |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |