GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| sleek | slick |
| conundrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
| retribution | recompense |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |