GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| billowing | wave |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| expiate | to make amends for |