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 |
|---|---|
| spate | freshet |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| belligerent | inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| faculty | ability |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| guileless | innocent |
| executioner | one who executes |