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 |
|---|---|
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| abnegation | denial |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| sentinel | sentry |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |