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 |
|---|---|
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |