GRE Word List

SCINTILLA

spark

The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.

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fancifulmarked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
intolerantunable or unwilling to endure
effulgentradiant splendor : brilliance
tacitexpressed or carried on without words or speech
homeostasisa 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
steeplofty
centripetalproceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis
trepidationa nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension
temperheat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion
sibyllineany 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)