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 |
|---|---|
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |