GRE Word List
DESPONDENT
feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression
The meaning of the word despondent is feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.
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ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
unconscionable | shockingly unfair or unjust |
countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
overweening | arrogant |
decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
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 |
itinerant | traveling from place to place |