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 |
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| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |