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 |
|---|---|
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly |
| 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 |
| motley | variegated in color |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| chafe | irritate |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |