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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |