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 |
|---|---|
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |