INCENT

PRONUNCIATION: (in-SENT)

MEANING: verb tr.: To provide a reward or benefit to induce action.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from incentive, from incinere (to strike a tune), from in- (intensive prefix) + canere (to sing). Earliest documented use: 1844.
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INOCENT - free of blame

UNCENT - the movement to stop minting pennies

VINCENT - hundred-year-old wine (Gogh get some)