GRE Word List
SOMBER
so shaded as to be dark and gloomy
The meaning of the word somber is so shaded as to be dark and gloomy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| microcosm | a little world |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |