GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| charlatan | quack |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| pitfall | trap |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |