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 |
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| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| catcall | a loud or raucous cry made especially to express disapproval (as at a sports event) |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| reek | smoke |