GRE Word List
TYCOON
a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate
The meaning of the word tycoon is a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dull | tedious |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| shove | to push along |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |