GRE Word List
DESPONDENT
feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression
The meaning of the word despondent is feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |