GRE Word List
OPALESCENT
reflecting an iridescent light
The meaning of the word opalescent is reflecting an iridescent light.
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| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
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| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| growl | rumble |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| intermediary | mediator |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |