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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| beatitude | a state of utmost bliss |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |