GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| divine | of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God (see god |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |