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 |
|---|---|
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| sybarite | voluptuary |