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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |