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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| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| bludgeon | a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| juncture | a point of time |
| retrench | cut down |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |