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 |
|---|---|
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |