Wednesday, February 4, 2015

BLEAK

WORD: BLEAK

MEANING:
1.
a. Gloomy and somber: "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" (John Millington Synge).
b. Providing no encouragement; depressing: a bleak prospect.
2. Cold and cutting; raw: bleak winds of the North Atlantic.
3. Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren: the bleak, treeless regions of the high Andes.
4. unwelcoming, miserable, lonely

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Omens look bleak for Vladimir Putin: Can the president ride out the storm?
2. The night after the storm was a bleak night.

PRONOUNCE:
bleak -  ब्लीक

LINK: BLEAK

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