GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| calorific | caloric |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| hortatory | hortative |