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 |
|---|---|
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| charlatan | quack |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |