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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |