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 |
|---|---|
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| boor | peasant |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| stilted | pompous |