GRE Word List
INCIDENCE
rate of occurrence or influence
The meaning of the word incidence is rate of occurrence or influence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| 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 |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |