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 |
|---|---|
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |