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 |
|---|---|
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| hurl | rush |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| submerge | to put under water |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |