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 |
|---|---|
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| provident | frugal |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |