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 |
|---|---|
| stench | stink |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| implode | to burst inward |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |