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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| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| 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 |