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 |
|---|---|
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
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