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

WordMeaning
retrieveto locate and bring in (killed or wounded game)
misadventuremisfortune
knavea tricky deceitful fellow
sheatheto put into or furnish with a sheath
suppliantsupplicant
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
immobilitynot moving : motionless
sonorousproducing sound (as when struck)
captionthe part of a legal document that shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found, or executed
functionaryone who serves in a certain function