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 |
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| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |