GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |