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 |
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| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |