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 |
|---|---|
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| thesis | a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |