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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| steep | lofty |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |