GRE Word List
DEFEATIST
an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat
The meaning of the word defeatist is an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |