GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |