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 |
|---|---|
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |