GRE Word List
SCINTILLATE
to emit sparks : spark
The meaning of the word scintillate is to emit sparks : spark.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| lode | waterway |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |