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.
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| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| bout | a spell or period of activity: such as |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |