GRE Word List
INCURSION
a hostile entrance into a territory : raid
The meaning of the word incursion is a hostile entrance into a territory : raid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| kismet | fate |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |