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 |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |