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Meaning of scintillescent | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2
ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt

Definitions

scintillating feebly

Examples

“[…] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]”
“They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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