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 |
|---|---|
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| hortatory | hortative |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |