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lambent

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore L words

softly glowing or flickering; lightly brilliant in expression

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Lambent in a sentence

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A lambent firelight played across the walls, flickering gently without ever flaring.

Synonyms
glowingradiantflickeringluminous
Antonyms
dulldimleaden

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The committee dismissed the proposal as blank, pointing out that its projected revenues depended on conditions no economy had ever sustained.

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Lambent (adjective) means softly glowing or flickering; lightly brilliant in expression
Here is lambent used in an example sentence: "A lambent firelight played across the walls, flickering gently without ever flaring."
Common synonyms for lambent include glowing, radiant, flickering, luminous.
Antonyms of lambent include dull, dim, leaden.
Lambent is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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