glimmer — OET

glimmer

verb

moonlight glimmered on the lawn:

gleam, shine, glint, flicker, shimmer, glisten, glow, twinkle, sparkle, glitter, catch the light, blink, wink, flash;

literary glister;

rare scintillate, coruscate, fulgurate, effulge, luminesce, incandesce, phosphoresce.

noun

1 a faint glimmer of light:

gleam, glint, flicker, shimmer, glow, twinkle, sparkle, blink, flash, ray.

2 a glimmer of hope:

gleam, glimmering, flicker, ray, trace, faint sign, scintilla, suggestion, hint.

glimmer Oxford Dictionary of English