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 |
|---|---|
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |