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 |
|---|---|
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| paltry | inferior |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| quorum | a select group |