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 |
|---|---|
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |