GRE Word List
TRANSLUCENT
permitting the passage of light:
The meaning of the word translucent is permitting the passage of light:.
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| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |