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 |
|---|---|
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |