glare
Other forms: glaring; glared; glares
When you drive, you pull down your visors to block the glare, or the blinding light from the sun. The "rocket's red glare" from the national anthem is the bright light you'd see as a rocket shoots through the sky.
Imagine the twinge of pain you get when you suddenly see the glare of a strong flash of bright light. Now imagine this light coming from an angry person's eyes towards you. This angry look is called a glare. If someone glares at you, be careful you don't get attacked! Glare can also mean the spotlight of public attention.
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be sharply reflected
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shine intensely
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a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted“a glare of sunlight”
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synonyms:
blaze, brilliance
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type of:
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brightness
the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
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brightness
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look at with a fixed gaze
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an angry stare
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a focus of public attention“when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency”
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synonyms:
limelight, public eye, spotlight
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prominence
the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
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prominence
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Vocabulary lists containing glare
Named after a long line of men in his family, twelve-year-old Andrew Joseph Tyler visits his ancestral home in Missouri and gets transported back in time.
When riots break out in Los Angeles, sixth-grader Jordan Park decides he must go to his family's store to protect his father.
In this fifteenth book of the historical fiction I Survived series, eleven-year-old Nathaniel Fox runs away from home and finds himself in the middle of the Battle of Brooklyn.
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