Scintillate
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scintillate
v 1: give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
2: reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the
hillside" [syn: {sparkle}, {scintillate}, {coruscate}]
3: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a
constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
[syn: {twinkle}, {winkle}, {scintillate}]
4: physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged
particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced"
5: be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical
performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his
playing coruscated throughout the concert hall" [syn:
{sparkle}, {scintillate}, {coruscate}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "scintillate":
be brilliant, be merry with, blink, coruscate, crack a joke,
crack wise, fleer at, fun, gibe at, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint,
glisk, glisten, glister, glitter, jape, jest, joke, josh, kid,
kid around, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, mock,
play on words, poke fun at, pun, quip, ridicule, scoff at, shimmer,
spangle, spark, sparkle, tinsel, twinkle, utter a mot, wisecrack
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