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 |
|---|---|
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |