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 |
|---|---|
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| diadem | crown |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| retrench | cut down |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| fester | to generate pus |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |