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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| junket | trip |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |