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 |
|---|---|
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| pundit | pandit |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| nomenclature | name |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| cryptic | secret |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |