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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| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| flair | a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something : talent |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| fester | to generate pus |
| countenance | look |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |