GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| 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 |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |