GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| score | twenty |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| exhume | disinter |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |