GRE Word List
GLEAM
a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light
The meaning of the word gleam is a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| mendicant | beggar |
| 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 |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |