GRE Word List
GLOW
to shine with or as if with an intense heat
The meaning of the word glow is to shine with or as if with an intense heat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| clown | farmer |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |