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 |
|---|---|
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| colander | a perforated utensil for washing or draining food |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |