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 |
|---|---|
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| caption | the part of a legal document that shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found, or executed |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| freebooter | pirate |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |