scintillateEnglishOxford English Thesaurusscintillate verb the brilliant stones scintillated in the sunlight: sparkle, shine, gleam, glitter, flash, shimmer, twinkle, glint, glisten, wink, blink; literary glister; rare coruscate, fulgurate, effulge, luminesce, phosphoresce, incandesce.scintillate Oxford Dictionary of English