GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| 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 |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |