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.
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| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
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| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |