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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| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |