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 |
|---|---|
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| forebears | ancestor |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |