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.

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WordMeaning
choreographythe art of symbolically representing dancing
impaleto pierce with or as if with something pointed
potiona mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine)
haphappening
lugubriousmournful
deprecateto express disapproval of
sedentarynot migratory : settled
shoveto push along
agnostica person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
cumbersomeunwieldy because of heaviness and bulk