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
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circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
malodorous | having a bad odor |
exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
posthumous | born after the death of the father |
dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
bullion | gold or silver considered as so much metal |
codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
chase | the hunting of wild animals |
mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |