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 |
|---|---|
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |