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 |
|---|---|
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| encompass | include |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |