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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | radiance |
| Synonyms: | brightness, fluorescence, glow, light, luminance |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, campfire, charring, coals, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flame and smoke, flames, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, hot spot, incandescence, inferno, luminosity, oxidation, phlogiston, pyre, rapid oxidation, scintillation, scorching, sea of flames, searing, sparks, tinder, up in smoke, warmth |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning, brightness |
| Synonyms: | afterglow, bloom, blossom, blush, brilliance, effulgence, flush, glare, gleam, glimmer, glitter, gusto, heat, incandescence, intensity, lambency, light, luminosity, passion, phosphorescence, radiance, ray, splendor, vividness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
| Synonyms: | IQ, acuity, acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brainpower, brains, brightness, brilliance, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, coruscation, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, precocity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, the right stuff, trenchancy, understanding, what it takes, wit |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luminescence from sun or other source |
| Synonyms: | aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, bulb, candle, coruscation, dawn, daybreak, daylight, daytime, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, fulgor, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, luminosity, luster, morn, morning, phosphorescence, radiance, radiation, ray, refulgence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunbeam, sunrise, sunshine, taper, torch, window |
| Antonyms: | dark, darkness, night, obscurity |
| Main Entry: | radiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, luminescence |
| Synonyms: | brilliance, effulgence, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, incandescence, light, luminosity, luster, resplendence, shine |
| Antonyms: | cloudiness, dark, dimness, dullness |
| Main Entry: | shine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness; polish |
| Synonyms: | flash, glare, glaze, gleam, glint, glitz, gloss, lambency, light, luminosity, luster, patina, radiance, rub, sheen, shimmer, show, sparkle |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dullness |
| Main Entry: | tint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shade of color |
| Synonyms: | cast, chroma, color, coloration, complexion, dash, dye, flush, glow, hint, hue, luminosity, pigmentation, rinse, stain, suggestion, taint, tinct, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, wash |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color |
| Antonyms: | white |
| Main Entry: | brightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shine |
| Synonyms: | brilliance, glaze, gloss, illumination, light, luminosity, luster, shine |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dullness |
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