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 |
|---|---|
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| gnarl | snarl |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |