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 |
|---|---|
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |