GRE Word List

DESPERATE

having lost hope

The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.

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ravinea small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water
siftto put through a sieve
curban edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter
blisscomplete happiness
headlongheadfirst
skinflinta person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser
gyroscopea 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
tritehackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original
boundfastened by or as if by a band : confined
ancillarysubordinate