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 |
|---|---|
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| scotch | scottish |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |