GRE Word List

SCINTILLATE

to emit sparks : spark

The meaning of the word scintillate is to emit sparks : spark.

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etymologythe 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
incipientbeginning to come into being or to become apparent
lodewaterway
gustthe sensation of taste
munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
sobernot intoxicated
nebulousof, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular
apiarya place where bees are kept
fretto eat or gnaw into : corrode
protrudeto jut out from the surrounding surface or context