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 |
|---|---|
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| reckon | count |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |