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 |
|---|---|
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| retrench | cut down |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |