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 |
|---|---|
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| pending | during |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |