GRE Word List
GLOSSY
having a surface luster or brightness
The meaning of the word glossy is having a surface luster or brightness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| progeny | descendants |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |