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AncientLiterature
VL7
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English
10th Grade
04/26/2011

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Somber
Definition
gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted
dark and dull, as color, or as things in respect to color
gloomy, depressing, or dismal
extremely serious; grave
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Ominous
Definition
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious:
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Deluge
Definition
a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
2.
a drenching rain; downpour.
3.
anything that overwhelms like a flood:
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Transgression
Definition
violation of a law, command,
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Pestilence
Definition
a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
2.
bubonic plague.
3.
something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
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Epithet
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