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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| realm | kingdom |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| nourishment | food |