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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| raiment | clothing |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |