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 |
|---|---|
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| prolong | to lengthen in time : continue |
| retrench | cut down |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |