GRE Word List
INCREMENT
the amount or degree by which something changes
The meaning of the word increment is the amount or degree by which something changes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| whittle | a large knife |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |