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 |
|---|---|
| irremediable | not remediable |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| drab | slattern |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |