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 |
|---|---|
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
