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 |
|---|---|
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| gazette | newspaper |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |