GRE Word List
LUSTROUS
reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle
The meaning of the word lustrous is reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |