GRE Word List
TRANSPARENT
having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid
The meaning of the word transparent is having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impediment | something that impedes |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| faculty | ability |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |