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Marocco. — An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of
Africa;
• (edify)- to instruct or benefit, esp. morally or spiritually; uplift, (
); The desire to edify or to show the
accomplishment of prophecies is perceptible. — The Life of Jesus;
• (irradiate)- cast rays of light upon;
• give spiritual insight to; in religion;
perspicuous perspicacious
• (perspicacious)- having keen mental perception and understanding;
discerning, ( , ); Sane,
intelligent, perspicacious, and cute, this girl had looked. — 165 - The Devil Is
Jones;
opaque # transparent = cobwebby = diaphanous = filmy {tenuous} = gauzy =
sheer {absolute} = gossamer = ethereal = vaporous = vitreous
• (opaque)- not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not
allowing light to pass through, ( ; ; ); The waves that
were a bright, hard blue yesterday under a fading sky are green, opaque, and
cold. — Locus Online News;
• (cobwebby)- having the form, texture, or quality of cobwebs; A cobwebby,
Rip-van-Winkle-ish atmosphere brooded about those passages and chambers.
— Alone;
• (diaphanous)- very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or
translucent, ( , ); In that mystic light her white shroud
seemed diaphanous, and she appeared like a spirit of power. — The Lady of
the Shroud;
• (filmy)- thin and light; fine and gauzy; She wore a pea green skirt and a
waist of filmy, feminine texture. — Tramping on Life;
• (tenuous)- thin or slender in form, as a thread, ( ; ; );
Security in some rural areas was tenuous, and major transportation routes
were subject to interdiction by resistance forces;
• (gauzy)- like gauze; transparently thin and light; Their dark eyes were
filmed with transparent lids, tiny naked paws drawn up to their gauzy bodies
in peaceful cryosleep. — The Legacy of Heorot;
• (sheer)- transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics, ( ,
); stockings of sheer nylon;
• unmixed with anything else, ( , , , , ); a
sheer waste of time;
• extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical, ( ,