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 |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |