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 |
|---|---|
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| dys- | abnormal |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
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| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
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