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What is the meaning of the word bleak based on its context in this excerpt from

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol? And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants . . .

huge
gloomy
noisy
mountainous

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Gloomy

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gloomy. the text shows that the area is "desert".
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