GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| progeny | descendants |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |