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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| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| charlatan | quack |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| apropos | being both relevant and opportune |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| sear | being dried and withered |