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shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
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Refulgent
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is requite. Does it mean:
| make repayment or return for service, benefits |
| regard with respect tinged with awe |
Example Sentences
- Color, refulgent and ecstatic, turns out to trump sculptural form.
- It's a striking idea, an artist famed for his lush, refulgent canvases laboring in a dim room by such cold and meager light.
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refulgent
c.1500, from L. refulgentem (nom. refulgens), prp. of refulgere "flash back, shine brilliantly," from re- "back" + fulgere "to shine" (see bleach).
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