GRE Word List
INCUMBENT
the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice
The meaning of the word incumbent is the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| headlong | headfirst |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |