GRE Word List
INCIDENT
an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening
The meaning of the word incident is an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |