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 |
|---|---|
| deify | to make a god of |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |