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 |
|---|---|
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| alleviate | relieve |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| gazette | newspaper |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |