incomber

Meaning

to fall to, to be incumbent on

Example

It falls to the employer to prove that the procedure was followed.

Word forms

The spellings this word turns up in. There are 14 of them.

More words at level C1

• infléchir to shift, to adjust, to bend
• insidieux insidious, stealthy, creeping
• intransigeance intransigence, inflexibility
• intrinsèque intrinsic, inherent, built-in
• inéluctable inescapable, inevitable, unavoidable
• jalonner to mark, to punctuate, to dot
• jauger to gauge, to size up, to assess
• laconique laconic, terse, brief

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