GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |