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 |
|---|---|
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| advocacy | the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating (see advocate |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |