Words Related to Shining: Glitter, Glisten, Gleam, Glint, and Glimmer

This afternoon, students in Class 208 asked me the difference between glitter, glisten, and gleam. Although I gave them my answer, as a non-native English speaker, I was not 100% confident. Here I found an answer online. The webpage includes more words: glint and glimmer.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/127189/whats-the-difference-between-glinted-glittered-glistened-gleamed-and-glimme