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 |
|---|---|
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |