GRE Word List
GLIMMER
to shine faintly or unsteadily
The meaning of the word glimmer is to shine faintly or unsteadily.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| hap | happening |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |