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 |
|---|---|
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |