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 |
|---|---|
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| junket | trip |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| catcall | a loud or raucous cry made especially to express disapproval (as at a sports event) |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| abeyance | a state of temporary inactivity : suspension |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| galley | a ship or boat propelled solely or chiefly by oars: such as |
