GRE Word List
INCITE
to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on
The meaning of the word incite is to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |