GRE Word List
INSTIGATE
to goad or urge forward : provoke
The meaning of the word instigate is to goad or urge forward : provoke.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| forlorn | bereft |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| tyranny | oppressive power |