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 |
|---|---|
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| violate | break |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |