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 |
|---|---|
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| osseous | bony |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |