GRE Word List
LUSTER
a glow of reflected light : sheen
The meaning of the word luster is a glow of reflected light : sheen.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antiquity | ancient times |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| archaeology | the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| natal | native |
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