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 |
|---|---|
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |