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 |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |