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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purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
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