GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| billow | wave |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |