WOOHOO, that's so much fun, Berkleigh! We hope you have a SUPER time at the movies with your family! Thanks for telling us how long you can hold your breath under water- that sure is a long time! PHEW! We think it's incredible to learn about the world record for the longest amount of time underwater!
When you're sombre â or somber â you're acting glum, depressed, or sad. Being sombre is the opposite of being perky or happy. This is a word that has to do with the mood of a person or event. A funeral is going to be sombre, and the people at the funeral are usually pretty sombre, too. It's a quiet, serious, and even gloomy kind of feeling. Objects can look sombre if they're dull and colorless.
A mantle is a word for something that blankets over something else, like the loose cloak worn by Little Red Riding Hood or the layer of earth between the crust and core. Mantle is something that envelops and covers, like a tree covered in a mantle of snow. The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra said, âBlessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.â Here, sleep is described as a mantle blanketing over the mind. Mantel is a variation of mantle, but it very specifically describes the shelf above a fireplace. Definitions of mantle.