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 |
|---|---|
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| sentinel | sentry |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| migrant | one that migrates: such as |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |