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 |
|---|---|
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| wreak | bring about |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |