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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |