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
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| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |