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 |
|---|---|
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
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| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |