GRE Word List
TRANSLUCENT
permitting the passage of light:
The meaning of the word translucent is permitting the passage of light:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |