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 |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |