GRE Word List
OPALESCENT
reflecting an iridescent light
The meaning of the word opalescent is reflecting an iridescent light.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |