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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| grotto | cave |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |