GRE Word List
SOMNOLENT
of a kind likely to induce sleep
The meaning of the word somnolent is of a kind likely to induce sleep.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| verge | brink |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |