scintillate

Verb

• be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
  • The musical performance sparkled
    
  • A scintillating conversation
    
  • his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall
    

• physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
  • the phosphor fluoresced
    

• emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  • Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
    

• reflect brightly
  • Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside
    

• give off
  • the substance scintillated sparks and flashes
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sparkle , coruscate , twinkle , winkle