GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
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| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| headlong | headfirst |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| 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 |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| ancillary | subordinate |