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 |
|---|---|
| quisling | traitor |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| mischance | bad luck |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |