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 |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| sheer | unqualified |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| cue | the letter q |