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 |
|---|---|
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
| pliant | pliable |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |