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 |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| finished | entirely done |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |