GRE Word List
LUMINARY
a person of prominence or brilliant achievement
The meaning of the word luminary is a person of prominence or brilliant achievement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| rustle | to make or cause a rustle |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| sportive | frolicsome |