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 |
|---|---|
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| ploy | escapade |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |