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 |
|---|---|
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| seismic | of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |