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 |
|---|---|
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |