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 |
|---|---|
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |