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 |
|---|---|
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| espouse | marry |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |