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incandescent

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore I words

glowing with intense heat, or marked by brilliant passion and brilliance

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Incandescent in a sentence

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Her incandescent enthusiasm lit up the entire rehearsal.

Synonyms
glowingradiantbrilliantluminous
Antonyms
dulldim

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Verbal · Text Completion

The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.

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Incandescent (adjective) means glowing with intense heat, or marked by brilliant passion and brilliance
Here is incandescent used in an example sentence: "Her incandescent enthusiasm lit up the entire rehearsal."
Common synonyms for incandescent include glowing, radiant, brilliant, luminous.
Antonyms of incandescent include dull, dim.
Incandescent is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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