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| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning, brightness |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, blush, effulgence, flush, glare, gleam, glimmer, glitter, gusto, heat, intensity, light, luminosity, passion, radiance, ray, splendor, vividness, warmth, afterglow, brilliance, incandescence, lambency, phosphorescence |
| Main Entry: | luster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloss, shine |
| Synonyms: | brightness, burnish, dazzle, effulgence, glaze, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, iridescence, polish, radiance, sheen, shimmer, sparkle, afterglow, brilliance, brilliancy, candescence, incandescence, lambency, luminousness, opalescence, refulgence, resplendence |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dullness, matte |
| Main Entry: | ray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beam; indication |
| Synonyms: | bar, blaze, blink, emanation, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, hint, light, patch, radiance, radiation, scintilla, shaft, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, trace, wave, incandescence, irradiation, moonbeam, pencil, sunbeam |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | shimmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gleam |
| Synonyms: | flash, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, gloss, glow, iridescence, luster, sheen, spangle, spark, sparkle, twinkle, blinking, coruscation, diffused light, incandescence, phosphorescence, scintillation |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, inferno, luminosity, pyre, scorching, tinder, warmth, campfire, charring, coals, flame and smoke, flames, hot spot, incandescence, oxidation, phlogiston, rapid oxidation, scintillation, sea of flames, searing, sparks, up in smoke |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, blaze, burst, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illumination, imprint, impulse, luster, quiver, radiation, ray, reflection, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle, twinkling, vision, bedazzlement, coruscation, incandescence, phosphorescence, scintillation |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high temperature |
| Synonyms: | dog days, fever, sultriness, swelter, warmth, calefaction, calidity, fieriness, greenhouse effect, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, torridity, torridness, warmness |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luminescence from sun or other source |
| Synonyms: | aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, bulb, candle, dawn, daybreak, daylight, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, lamp, lantern, luminosity, luster, morning, radiance, radiation, ray, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunrise, taper, torch, window, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, daytime, fulgor, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lighthouse, morn, phosphorescence, refulgence, scintillation, sunbeam, sunshine |
| Antonyms: | dark, darkness, night, obscurity |
| Main Entry: | radiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, luminescence |
| Synonyms: | effulgence, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, light, luminosity, luster, shine, brilliance, incandescence, resplendence |
| Antonyms: | dark, dullness, cloudiness, dimness |
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