GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whittle | a large knife |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| demure | reserved |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |