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 |
|---|---|
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
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| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |