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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| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |