Word of the DayThursday May 7, 2009
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coruscate \KOR-uh-skayt\, verb:
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1. To give off or reflect bright beams or flashes of light; to sparkle.
2. To exhibit brilliant, sparkling technique or style.
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When reading articles from the mainstream media about the B.O., you would think that he walks on water and has coruscating lights beaming all about him!
When reading articles from the mainstream media about the B.O., you would think that he walks on water and has coruscating lights beaming all about him!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Coruscate comes from Latin coruscatus, past participle of coruscare, "to move quickly, to tremble, to flutter, to twinkle or flash." The noun form is coruscation. Also from coruscare is the adjective coruscant, "glittering in flashes; flashing."
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