GRE Word List
DESPERATE
having lost hope
The meaning of the word desperate is having lost hope.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extradition | the 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 |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |