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 |
|---|---|
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |