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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| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |