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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| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| wry | twist |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |