SAT vocabulary
Lugubrious
Mournful, dismal, or excessively gloomy in appearance or tone.
Example
"The cellist played a lugubrious melody that brought an eerie hush over the auditorium."
Etymology
From Latin lugubris ('mournful'), from lugere ('to mourn').
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