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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| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| archaeology | the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |