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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| stringent | tight |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |