GRE Word List
DIAPHANOUS
characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
The meaning of the word diaphanous is characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| boor | peasant |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| inequity | injustice |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |