GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
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|---|---|
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| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
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| provenance | origin |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
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