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 |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| indenture | a document or a section of a document that is indented |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |