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refract
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    Their tent was too small for them to stand, a long but low pentahedron, in shape like the triangular glass prism Saeed used to have as a child, with which he would refract sunlight into little rainbows.  (source)
    refract = change the velocity of a beam of light to show different colors as it goes through an angled medium
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    Of course, he had forgotten that water refracts, bends light.  (source)
    refracts = To change the velocity of a beam of light (apparently bending it) as it passes (at an angle) from one medium into another.
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    Sunsets are never simple. Twilight is refracted and reflected But never true.  (source)
    refracted = bent
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    Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?  (source)
    refracted = reflect in a manner that allows seeing in a new way
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    He had thought it as he had watched hunting seabirds, marveling at their ability to adjust their dives to compensate for the refraction of light in water.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The rain hits like pellets against the bubble, which refracts the lights in strange circular and then semicircular waves as they go by.†  (source)
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    A glass canopy, supported by clear, artfully cut columns, stretches over us, refracting the sun into a million dancing colors to match the women milling about.  (source)
    refracting = bending
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    The million chipped facets of its glass head refract the light and make it look like a meteor.†  (source)
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    Definitely she looked athletic, though too pale to be a tennis player; maybe she was a ballerina or a gymnast or even a high diver, practicing late in shadowy indoor pools, echoes and refractions, dark tile.†  (source)
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    In the pool, there were men and women entwined, flesh refracted and moving rhythmically, and there were the pills, the moonshine, but the man who emerged from the pool naked apparently crossed a line.  (source)
    refracted = visible only in a distorted manner
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    But according to Sikhdar's meticulous trigonometric reckoning (which took into account such factors as curvature of the earth, atmospheric refraction, and plumb-line deflection) Peak XV stood 29,002 feet above sea level, the planet's loftiest point.†  (source)
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    Sparks of electric fire mingle with the dazzling sheaf of lighted fluid, every drop of which refracts the prismatic colours.†  (source)
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    A light placed above the center of the tank shines through the water, refracting as it ripples.†  (source)
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    Lev twists the bracelet so a diamond refracts a sparkle of light right into CyFi's eye.  (source)
    refracts = reflects
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    I wondered if there was a big fire somewhere, but in the morning Lori told me that the orange glow came from the air pollution refracting the light off the streets and buildings.  (source)
    refracting = reflecting
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