GRE Word List
ICONOCLASTIC
a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
The meaning of the word iconoclastic is a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| ploy | escapade |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |