GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |