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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| imbue | endow |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |