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 |
|---|---|
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |