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 |
|---|---|
| impediment | something that impedes |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |