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 |
|---|---|
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |