GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| 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 |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |