lucent
Other forms: lucently
Lucent things shine or glow with light. On a clear night, the full moon is lucent in the sky.
The literary word lucent essentially means "luminous" or "radiant," glowing with a soft, bright light. You're most likely to encounter it in a poem or novel, describing the stars or white flowers in the dusk, or someone' s beautiful pale face, but it sometimes has a "clear or lucid" meaning as well. It comes from the Latin lucentem, from lucere, "to shine."
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softly bright or radiant
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In this novella based on a Mexican folk tale, a poor diver rejoices when he finds an enormous pearl — but the treasure may not be the blessing it seems to be.
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During the Great Depression, the Joad family leaves a failing farm in Oklahoma in hopes of a better life out west.