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lu·cu·lent  audio  (lky-lnt) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
Easily understood; clear or lucid.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, shiny, from Latin lculentus, from lx, lc-, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots


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