GRE Word List
SHIMMER
to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer
The meaning of the word shimmer is to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| 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 |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |