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 |
|---|---|
| convene | to come together in a body |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |