GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| opus | work |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |