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 |
|---|---|
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| pastoral | of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |