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 |
|---|---|
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |