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 |
|---|---|
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| distend | extend |