GRE Word List
GLIMMER
to shine faintly or unsteadily
The meaning of the word glimmer is to shine faintly or unsteadily.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
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| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
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| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |