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 |
|---|---|
| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |