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 |
|---|---|
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |