GRE Word List
PROMPT
to move to action : incite
The meaning of the word prompt is to move to action : incite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |