GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| dys- | abnormal |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |