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 |
|---|---|
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| reek | smoke |
| dint | force |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |