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Scintillate

verb

(past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)

Give off.

Reflect brightly. Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.

Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner. Synonyms: twinkle, winkle.

Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.

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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