GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| polity | political organization |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| distort | to twist (see twist |