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scintillate

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪn.tɪˌleɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aceiillnsttStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin scintillātus, past participle of scintillāre (“to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash”), from scintilla (“a spark”).

Used in a sentence

  • The streets of Rangoon, wallowing in sun, flashed and scintillated with strolling crowds, skirted in their best silk longyis.
  • There it no other word to describe it; the book scintillates. It moves with a rush and a sweep that carry the reader along like a chip on the current of the Niagara rapids.
  • The interior of the prison flashed white with suddenly-turned faces. The gloom scintillated, as it were, with rapidly-moving hands.

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