GRE Word List
EFFULGENT
radiant splendor : brilliance
The meaning of the word effulgent is radiant splendor : brilliance.
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| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |