GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| boor | peasant |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| 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 |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |