GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| random | a haphazard course |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |