GRE Word List
RENOWN
a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame
The meaning of the word renown is a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |