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 |
|---|---|
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |