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 |
|---|---|
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| edifice | building |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| demented | mad |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| devious | wandering |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |