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 |
|---|---|
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |