GRE Word List
SCINTILLA
spark
The meaning of the word scintilla is spark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water |