GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |