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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |