GRE Word List

DESPERATE

having lost hope

The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.

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WordMeaning
extraditionthe surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge
supplicateto make a humble entreaty
drawto cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull
monolithicof, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge
odiousarousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful
apexthe uppermost point : vertex
knacka special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach
subsistencereal being : existence
searbeing dried and withered
hieroglyphicwritten in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters