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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derangedmentally unsound : crazy
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
confluencea coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point
slougha place of deep mud or mire
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
waneto decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle
besetto set or stud with or as if with ornaments
smirkto smile in a smug or condescending way
snivelto run at the nose
antagonismopposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle