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 |
|---|---|
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
| hap | happening |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| shove | to push along |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |