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 |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| blackball | to vote against |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |