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 |
|---|---|
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| primal | original |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| notable | worthy of note : remarkable |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |