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 |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |