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 |
|---|---|
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| poise | balance |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |