| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very bright light, shine |
| Synonyms: | blaze, blinding light, brilliance, dazzle, flame, flare, glow |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a dirty look |
| Synonyms: | bore, do a slow burn, fix, frown, gape, gawk, gaze, glower, look daggers, lower, menace, peer, pierce, scowl, stare, stare angrily, stare icily, wither |
| Antonyms: | grin, smile |
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shine very brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, blare, blaze, blind, blur, daze, dazzle, flame, flare, glaze, glow, radiate |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ray of light |
| Synonyms: | bar, beacon, chink, column, dartle, emission, finger, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, laser, radiation, ray, shaft, shimmer, shoot, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | broadcast on air waves |
| Synonyms: | emit, give off, give out, glare, glimmer, glow, radiate, send, shed, shine, throw off, transmit |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shine, as a light |
| Synonyms: | burn, emit, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiate, yield |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Antonyms: | be dark |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash of light |
| Synonyms: | beam, brilliance, burst, flare, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiance |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, burst out, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, fulgurate, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, incandesce, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle |
| Main Entry: | blur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cloud, fog |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blind, darken, daze, dazzle, dim, glare, make hazy, make indistinct, make vague, mask, muddy, obscure, shade, soften |
| Antonyms: | clear, uncloud, unsmudge |