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 |
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layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
mandate | an authoritative command |
bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |