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 |
|---|---|
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |