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 |
|---|---|
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| laud | praise |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |