GRE Word of the Day: Fulgent
Fulgent (adj)
Full + detergent — we can bring fulgent using a full detergent cake.
>> “Tower searchlights . . . as fulgent as half a billion candles” Nicholas Profits
Meaning:
shining intensely; “the blazing sun”; “blinding headlights”; “dazzling snow”; “fulgent patterns of sunlight”; “the glaring sun”
Syn: ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
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Fulgent (adj)
Full + detergent — we can bring fulgent using a full detergent cake.
>> “Tower searchlights . . . as fulgent as half a billion candles” Nicholas Profits
Meaning:
shining intensely; “the blazing sun”; “blinding headlights”; “dazzling snow”; “fulgent patterns of sunlight”; “the glaring sun”
Syn: ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike limpid, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid
Ant: black, dark, dim, dreary, dull, gloomy
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a) blinding
b) preen
c) radiant
d) black
e) tenebrous
Popularity: 21% [?]
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#1. January 13th, 2007, at 9:38 PM.
ans.) e : tenebrous