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straight
A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards
luminous
Softly bright or radiant
violet
Any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
ray
A column of light
reflect
To be bright by ___ or casting light
incidence
The striking of a light beam on a surface
angle
The space between two lines or planes that intersect
normal
Something regarded as a ___ example
scatter
A haphazard distribution in all directions
plane
An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
indigo
A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
speed
How fast something moves
transparent
So thin as to ___ light
dispersion
Spreading widely or driving off
spectrum
An ordered array of the components of an emission or wave
prism
A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
filter
An electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
absorb
To take up mentally
red
The color of a fire truck
orange
Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color
yellow
The color of a banana
green
The color of grass
blue
The color of the sky on a clear day

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