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 |
|---|---|
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| parlance | speech |