GRE Word List

RIFE

prevalent especially to an increasing degree

The meaning of the word rife is prevalent especially to an increasing degree.

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precipitateto throw violently : hurl
visionaryhaving or marked by foresight and imagination
astronomicalof or relating to astronomy
excisean internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity
supinelying on the back or with the face upward
concomitantaccompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way
sycophanta servile self-seeking flatterer
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
ravelto become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray
phariseea 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