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drab
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adjective
(= dreary)
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
her drab personality
life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
a series of dreary dinner parties
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adjective
(= sober, somber, sombre)
lacking brightness or color; dull
drab faded curtains
sober Puritan grey
children in somber brown clothes
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adjective
(= olive-drab)
of a light brownish green color
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noun
(= olive drab)
a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
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adjective
(= blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim)
causing dejection
a blue day
the dark days of the war
a week of rainy depressing weather
a disconsolate winter landscape
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
a dark gloomy day
grim rainy weather
Atlantic
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noun
the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
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adjective
relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic currents
tree
Noun
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A tree is a tall plant of wood.
I'm going to climb a tree.
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A tree is a map of ideas that looks like the plant.
My family tree shows how I am related to all my family members.
tree
Verb
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(uncommon) If you tree something, you chase it up into a tree.
rat
Noun
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Rats are medium-sized rodents. They often live near people and eat garbage. Rats can carry diseases. They are also kept as pets and can be very tame.
I caught the rat that was eating our food.