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 |
|---|---|
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| lustrous | reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| bump | a relatively abrupt convexity or protuberance on a surface: such as |