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 |
|---|---|
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| ramification | branch |