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 |
|---|---|
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |