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 |
|---|---|
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| nexus | connection |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |