GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| steep | lofty |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |