GRE Word List
ICON
a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere
The meaning of the word icon is a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| hortatory | hortative |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |