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Scintillate

verb
(past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)
1.
Give off.
2.
Reflect brightly.  Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.
3.
Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner.  Synonyms: twinkle, winkle.
4.
Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.
5.
Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.  Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.  "A scintillating conversation" , "His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"






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"Scintillate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Beverley, Esquire, was undoubtedly in the ascendant; no such radiant orb had brightened the Fashionable Firmament since that of a certain Mr. Brummell had risen to scintillate a while ere it paled and vanished ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al



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