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.

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modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
leonineof, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion
epigrama concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought
argotthe language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
desperadoa bold or violent criminal
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
obsidiana dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava
waggishresembling or characteristic of a wag
expropriateto deprive of possession or proprietary rights
glossyhaving a surface luster or brightness