GRE Word List
INCIPIENT
beginning to come into being or to become apparent
The meaning of the word incipient is beginning to come into being or to become apparent.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence |
stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
pendant | something suspended: such as |
progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |