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 |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| exude | to ooze out |