GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| nib | bill |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
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