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 |
|---|---|
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |