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 |
|---|---|
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| impuissance | weakness |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |