GRE Word List
SULLEN
gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
The meaning of the word sullen is gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
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| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| deify | to make a god of |
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| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
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| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |