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 |
|---|---|
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |
| swill | wash |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |