GRE Word List
PELLUCID
admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion
The meaning of the word pellucid is admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| onus | burden |
| retrench | cut down |
| sledge | sledgehammer |