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 |
|---|---|
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| overthrow | overturn |
| flighty | swift |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| fete | festival |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |