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translucid

[trans-loo-sid, tranz-]

adjective

Origin:
1620–30; < Latin trānslūcidus clear, transparent. See trans-, lucid

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Translucid is always a great word to know.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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"This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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