GRE Word List
RIFE
prevalent especially to an increasing degree
The meaning of the word rife is prevalent especially to an increasing degree.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| cohorts | companion |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |