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 |
|---|---|
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
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