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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| espouse | marry |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |