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 |
|---|---|
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |