Week of May 4th -8th 2009

dark

 –adjective

1.	having very little or no light: a dark room.

2.	radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light: a dark color.

3.	approaching black in hue: a dark brown.

4.	not pale or fair; swarthy: a dark complexion.

5.	brunette; dark-colored: dark eyebrows.

6.	having brunette hair: She's dark but her children are blond.

7.	(of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream.

8.	gloomy; cheerless; dismal: the dark days of World War II.

9.	sullen; frowning: a dark expression.

10.	evil; iniquitous; wicked: a dark plot.

11.	destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened.

12.	hard to understand; obscure.

13.	hidden; secret.

14.	silent; reticent.

15.	(of a theater) offering no performances; closed: The theaters in this town are dark on Sundays.

16.	Phonetics. a. (of an l-sound) having back-vowel resonance; situated after a vowel in the same syllable. Compare clear (def. 24a). b. (of a speech sound) of dull quality; acoustically damped.

–noun

17.	the absence of light; darkness: I can't see well in the dark.

18.	night; nightfall: Please come home before dark.

19.	a dark place.

20.	a dark color.