translucent
allowing light to pass through but not fully transparent
Translucent in a sentence
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The translucent curtains softened the harsh sunlight into a gentle glow.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
The committee dismissed the proposal as blank, pointing out that its projected revenues depended on conditions no economy had ever sustained.
More GRE words starting with T
understood or implied without being openly stated
habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech
only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point
perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
equivalent in effect or value to something else
to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
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