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 |
|---|---|
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |