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 |
|---|---|
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| distend | extend |
| cynical | having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| berate | to scold or condemn vehemently and at length |