Word of the Day for Tuesday, December 20, 2011
lucent \LOO-suhnt\, adjective:
1. Shining.
2. Translucent; clear.
As the ObamaStar continued to circle the earth, it would alternately appear to be this otherworldly lucent star and then turn deathly dark, depending on how the sun was shining off of it or when it was blocking out the sun during its daily eclipses. There was despair among the people on earth as they continued to observe the ObamaStar. "After all," they thought, "how can we ever gain control back from the B.O.; he is all powerful now and we don't have the means to stop him any longer." But there were unknown and unseen forces at work...!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
The film of evening light made the red earth lucent, so that its dimensions were deepened, so that a stone, a post, a building had greater depth and more solidity than in the daytime light...-- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
His lucent top-hat, his dark frock-coat, indeed, every detail, from the pearl pin in the black satin cravat to the lavender spats over the varnished shoes, spoke of the meticulous care in dress for which he was famous.-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1
Lucent comes from the Latin word lucentum meaning “to shine.”
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