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 |
|---|---|
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |