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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abstemiousmarked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
lampoonsatire
bulwarka solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart
implicateto bring into intimate or incriminating connection
vertebrateany of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life
sybaritevoluptuary
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overturnto cause to turn over : upset
complementaryserving to fill out or complete