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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |