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 |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |