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 |
|---|---|
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| descry | to catch sight of |