Learning new words with this book🧡

🧶 Poignant = causing or having very sharp feeling of sadness

The photograph awakens poignant memories of happier days

It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding

🧶 Somber = serious, sad and without humor or entertainment

a somber atmosphere
a somber voice/face
I left him in a somber mood

🧶 Ominous = suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen

There was an ominous silence when I asked whether my contract was going to be renewed

🧶 Retaliate = to hurt someone

The terrorists retaliated against the government with a bomb attack