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 |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| pedestrian | commonplace |