GRE Word List
SULLEN
gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
The meaning of the word sullen is gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| lewd | obscene |