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 |
|---|---|
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| cataract | a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |