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 |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| lampoon | satire |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| vertebrate | any 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 |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |