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 |
|---|---|
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |