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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abstemiousmarked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
auroraldawn
caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
tacta keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense
hostilitydeep-seated usually mutual ill will
gnomemaxim
frigidintensely cold
scrapsfragments of discarded or leftover food
muddleto make turbid or muddy
correlationthe state or relation of being correlated