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 |
|---|---|
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| wont | accustomed |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |