GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |