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 |
|---|---|
| noisome | noxious |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| feint | something feigned |