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 |
|---|---|
| acumen | keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |