GRE Word List
LUMINOUS
emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light
The meaning of the word luminous is emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| sheer | unqualified |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| rickety | affected with rickets |