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 |
|---|---|
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| brink | edge |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |