(glares at self) Reflect : 1. To throw or bend back (light, for example) from a surface. 2. To be bent or thrown back: "Her voice reflected off the canyon walls." Radiate : 1. To issue or emerge in rays or waves: "Heat radiated from the stove." 2. To emit (light, for example) in or as if in rays. Dictionaries are sometimes the key to understanding language, and communication is based off of fundamental, standardized sound-parts, so that we can indeed make sense of each other.